We have had an absolutely disastrous winter.  It appears it is going to go down as the driest on record.  Governor Cox has just declared a State of Emergency due to the drought conditions we are experiencing.

The lake may be showing signs of already topping off.  If it hasn’t topped off yet, it will early to mid-April.

I have not set a crane day yet as I am wanting the lake to come up as much as possible before we pull the boats to make it easier to move boats around to the crane out slip on D dock.  As soon as the lake shows signs of flattening or even dropping we will schedule a Crane Day for shortly after that time.

It really is time to start  de-rigging boats; especially the deeper draft boats.  We started dropping masts last Sunday and were able to get 4.5 foot draft boats over to the mast crane slip.

I know many of you are shallower draft boats (3 feet or less) and want to get as much sailing as possible in before we see what your future holds.  Four foot draft boats can also still get out of the marina.  But I can pretty much guarantee you that anything over 3.5 feet draft will have their boast in the mud in their slip by early to mid-summer.

If we have a long hot summer we could see the lake drop as much as 2.8 feet in the marina.  That would leave most of the marina shallower than 3 feet and will only leave around 1.5 to 1.7 feet at the marina mouth.

If the weather is ok this Saturday, we will be available in the afternoon to give guidance on dropping masts.

We already have a significant amount of boats signed up for the first crane day.  In fact we have so many signed up we will need to do at least two crane days.  The priority will be to pull those with cradles and stands first as well as the deeper draft boats.

This is all just tragic for the boating community.  But it is where we are at.

Dave